<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Opinion</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/attacked/opinions?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><description>Opinion</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Still Searching For Airport Security]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11125-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11125-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  It was created to shield the nation's airports and transportation systems from attack after Sept. 11, 2001. But lately, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) itself has come under more scrutiny than a cigarette lighter at a passenger screening station.]]></description><author> Paul C. Light</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Limited Study of Islam]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3018-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3018-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ While I applaud the initiatives laid out by Peter Berkowitz and Michael McFaul in their April 12 op-ed,  "Studying Islam, Strengthening the Nation," I found it curious that they limited their reach to the geographic Middle East with regard to languages  --  Arabic, Persian (or Farsi) and Turkish.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Failure of More Than Intelligence]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32733-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32733-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Shortly before the United States went to war in Iraq, I was in contact with a former member of the American intelligence community. This is what he told me: Saddam Hussein had no nuclear weapons program, no chemical or biological weapons program to speak of, and no link to al Qaeda. He said that if America invaded, it would cost us "perhaps 1,000 casualties" and would lead to prolonged "terrorism and harassment." I thanked him very much for his views  --  and urged the United States to attack anyway. Along with Don Quixote, I sometimes feel that facts are the enemy of truth.]]></description><author> Richard Cohen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taiwan's Right to Freedom]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64569-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64569-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Tomorrow, hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese will take to the streets in our country to peacefully express their opposition to China's most recent threat to the freedom of Taiwan.  This month the  National People's Congress passed a so-called "Anti-Secession Law" that threatens the use of military force against our country. The demonstrators will mobilize to oppose the idea that China has a "right" to use force to subjugate the people of Taiwan  --  and they will protest the notion that some 2,900  unelected and unaccountable Chinese "parliamentarians" have the right to determine the future of the 23 million people of Taiwan.]]></description><author> Frank Chang-ting Hsieh</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burying the Real News]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48479-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48479-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  I want to add my voice to the many others you have probably heard regarding the placement and content of The Post's article on the deaths of prisoners in Afghanistan ["2 Died After '02 Beatings by U.S. Soldiers," news story, March 12].]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Checkpoint Iraq: A Tactic That Works]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28924-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28924-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ANBAR PROVINCE, Iraq<br> As an unembedded freelance journalist in Iraq, I have safely driven through scores of American roadblocks all over this country. I have also spent many hours with U.S. troops as they set up and operate these checkpoints.]]></description><author> Bartle Breese Bull</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tough Love or Tough Luck?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15521-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15521-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   President Bush has shocked even his most cynical critics by nominating the combative neoconservative John Bolton to one of our most complex and sensitive diplomatic posts: U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton served the past four years as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, though then-Secretary of State Colin Powell initially resisted his appointment.]]></description><author> Susan E. Rice</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Civil Service That Fails Today's Test]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55196-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55196-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Washington has always been a company town. That, in fact, was precisely what Congress wanted to create when it carved the federal district out of Maryland and Virginia in 1790 -- a place where the national government could do its business beyond the control of the states. As the government workforce exploded in the late 19th century, the idea of a politically neutral corps of public servants bound by a common mission and a core set of values, performing the daily functions of government through wars and sweltering August heat, certainly enhanced that company town feeling. The politicians may have held the best parties, but Washington's personality was really defined by its bureaucrats.]]></description><author> Donald F. Kettl</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Good News From Colombia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51794-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51794-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Robert D. Novak's assertion that Colombia's  fight against narco-terrorism is "America's forgotten war" is false ["Colombia on the Defensive," op-ed, Feb. 14]. Ironically, on the day that his column appeared, Marc Grossman, undersecretary of state for political affairs,  was making his seventh visit to Colombia since 2001. In November President Bush traveled to Colombia  to demonstrate his solidarity with President Alvaro Uribe's drug-fighting efforts.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rail Travel: A Way Out]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51788-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51788-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Once again, Amtrak is considered expendable in federal budget planning ["Bush Calls for Familiar Trims," news story, Feb. 8]. Fuel costs are rising, our large cities are choked by automobile exhaust and stressed by crowded freeways and interstates, and airlines are dropping service to smaller cities to avoid bankruptcy. Yet billions of dollars are spent supporting air  and highway travel every year. Amtrak would  need only $2 billion or $3 billion a year to develop a national system of rail travel that would provide an environmentally sensitive, convenient and accessible mode of travel for Americans.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Unheralded Revolution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48685-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48685-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Look beyond the jockeying for jobs in Iraq's embryonic transitional government. Focus instead on the final results in that Arab country's matrix-breaking election. They reveal a little-publicized result that President Bush, feminist organizations and democracy advocates should be shouting from the rooftops.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Improve Homeland Security]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45605-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45605-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  In his Feb. 2 front-page story, "Infighting Cited at Homeland Security," John Mintz  reported that the Department of Homeland Security "has made important strides in a number of areas" but that turf battles have limited its headway. Instead of developing one effective security force, the department sanctions three separate air forces -- Immigration and Customs  Enforcement (ICE),  Customs and Border  Protection, and the Coast Guard -- as well as two separate maritime forces: the ICE and the Coast Guard.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Case Against Attorney Was a Stretch]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40626-2005Feb20.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40626-2005Feb20.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Regarding the Feb. 18 editorial "Over the Line":  There is a difference between "crossing the line of propriety," as the editorial characterized me as saying about Lynne Stewart, the activist lawyer recently convicted on terrorism charges, and crossing the line of criminality. The latter warrants prison; the former doesn't. The editorial seems to have confused the two.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verbatim: What Clarke Really Said, When He Said It]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37102-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37102-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em> Two documents recently became public that shed new light on one of the most contentious issues of President Bush's first term: how seriously the new administration took the threat of al Qaeda.</em>]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tracing the FAA's Warnings]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27666-2005Feb15.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27666-2005Feb15.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   The Feb. 11 news story about the Federal Aviation Administration being alerted to potential attacks ["Report Says FAA Got 52 Warnings Before 9/11"] was the tip of the iceberg. Not only did the agency have more than ample notice and  only issued a tepid warning, but it didn't follow its own advice.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ledger]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18474-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18474-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush's proposed budget for fiscal year 2006 is 38 percent larger than the budget the year he took office and 3.6 percent larger than the estimated expenditures for the current year.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Down Under, Doubts About Bush]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17603-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17603-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   SYDNEY -- "George Bush is not an easy export."<br> That judgment, expressed over lunch at a beautiful harborside restaurant by Allan Gyngell, executive director of the Lowy Institute, a year-old foreign policy research center, describes the only blemish on America's relations with this...]]></description><author> David S. Broder</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rail Safety Should Come First]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3599-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3599-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   If we had not suffered two horrendous, preventable railroad accidents in South Carolina and California this year, I would have found amusing the comment by the rail expert that "there are so many thousands of miles of track and it is difficult to protect them from threats without slowing down commerce" ["Accidents Spur New Focus on Securing U.S. Rail System," news story, Jan. 29].]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overstating Mr. Bush's Role]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52774-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52774-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   In his Jan. 21 op-ed, "Tomorrow's Threat," Charles Krauthammer gave  President Bush credit for "good news," but Mr. Bush had nothing to do with the "orange" and "rose" revolutions in  Ukraine and Georgia, nor was he responsible for the Palestinian elections. He certainly had nothing to do with the elections in "two critical Muslim states -- Indonesia and Malaysia."]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assessing the Inaugural]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31525-2005Jan23.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31525-2005Jan23.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/attacked/opinions</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:18:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush's speech was out of touch for a  wartime inaugural address ["Bush Pledges to Spread Freedom," front page, Jan. 21].]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>